Review Of The Year 2007: February

Not a great month for music to be completely honest.

1. A Weekend In The City - Bloc Party

This album is so different from their 2005 debut "Silent Alarm", which was full of fast paced, simple guitar indie, mixed with really good lyrics (highlights being single "Helicopter" and "Positive Tension").
However, A Weekend In The City shows a complete change. It seems almost as though they knew that they would be selling out huge arenas by the end of the year. It's a long way from the manic style of the previous album that seemed much more designed for tiny sweaty gigs. The keyboards at the beginning of opener "Song For Clay (Disappear Here)" are perfect for the atmospheric opening you really need for an arena show.
The change is shown even further as you get past the first single to be taken from here "The Prayer". There are many far slower and more thought full tracks than you would expect, and the lyrics seem to take centre stage. One you listen to this, go back and listen of Silent Alarm and you will appreciate how good some of the lyrics are.
I love this album, and much prefer it to Silent Alarm, it shows the real tallent of the band in some of the music and really shows how good a song writer frontman Kele Okereke is.
Best tracks: Song For Clay (Disappear Here), Waiting For The 7:18, Uniform


Thats really it for February, really wasn't a very good month. Kaiser Chiefs released their second album "Yours Truly, Angry Mob", and despite a few highlighs ("The Angry Mob", "Highroyds", "Heat Dies Down") there really nothing worth saying about it.

So yeah, thats it for february.